How to Ensure Your Bleed and Cover Width Are Set Correctly for Print Hi, I have nearly finished designing my first book and have had so much help in this community, I am very grateful. I am so close to getting this to the printers, which is very exciting. I would really appreciate if you could help me with what I think are my last steps to be sure it prints correctly.
Firstly, could you please confirm I have set the cover width correctly. (I googled how to, so hopefully I have got it right). It has 40 inside pages and I plan to use 80gsm and a 250 to 300 gsm cover. Based on google, I have calculated 4mm width for the spine but would really appreciate your real life experience.
Also, I am wondering if you can tell from looking at the screenshot below if I have set bleed up correctly. I set bleed to 3mm all round in the settings, as per what the printer asked for. But I did some dragging in the document itself.
I want the whole document to have the green background but I’ve changed the colour of the back cover on lef